New Delhi: Advocate Alakh Alok Srivastava has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India, NV Ramana, requesting him to take suo moto cognizance of the death of a woman who had set herself on fire outside the top court's gate alleging that she had been raped by Bahujan Samaj Party MP Atul Rai and now she was being harassed and targetted for fighting her case.
"Before setting herself on fire, the said rape victim had recorded a Facebook live video wherein she had reportedly said that she had lodged a rape case against BSP Member of Parliament Atul Rai and further alleged that few senior IPS officers and a judge from Uttar Pradesh were part of nexus," read the letter.
As per the letter, Rai had raped the woman in Varanasi on March 7, 2018, filmed the assault and threatened to circulate it on social media. Later on, an FIR was lodged and the trial was going on.
